Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...class, and when he established Buddhism as the state religion, the non-Buddhist 15% of the population was understandably outraged. By 1958, U Nu's rather whimsical administration was in such disarray that he voluntarily stepped aside to give Ne Win, his tough army chief, a chance to set things straight. U Nu returned to power in 1960 in a landslide election victory. But in 1962, Ne Win threw him out in a lightning coup, jailed 2,000 dissidents, put the country under martial law and set its potentially rich economy on what he called "the Burmese...
...publisher's proposal to do a photographic study of various postures of man's death, and happily posed for 15 postures, including drowning, death by duel and harakiri. Then, at an unprecedented show in a Tokyo department store that ended only three weeks ago, he displayed a set of photographs of himself in the nude. Last week the body that he had trained until it became his pride, together with its severed head, was cremated. Yukio Mishima left two farewell waka, the 31-syllable Japanese poems, that he had composed, like a good samurai...
...sheaths of swords rattle As after years of endurance Brave men set out To tread upon the first frost of the year...
...Invisible Finns. The Soviet ex-Premier's account begins with the event that set the stage for Russia's entry into the war-the nonaggression treaty between Stalin and Hitler in 1939. Khrushchev learned of the pact when he was summoned to Stalin's dacha after a day of hunting with other members of the Soviet hierarchy. "While the trophies of our hunt were being prepared for the table," recalls Khrushchev, "Stalin told us that [Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von] Ribbentrop had brought with him a draft of a friendship and nonaggression treaty and that...
William O. ("Bud") Bradley, 46, and John Squire Drendel, 47, think of themselves rather expansively as "storefront lawyers who make money." They set up their partnership in 1958 in a converted Reno garage, carefully chosen to avoid intimidating the frequently poor and scruffy clients they wanted to represent. They further decided to take "only the cases where there is a serious injury and clear negligence." Apparent translation: cases that promise large damage awards. In each of the past five years, the duo has grossed more than $2,000,000 in damages for relatively few clients. For the very biggest cases...